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Afterwards

Synopsis

Berlin. Night. An old, homeless drunk stumbles down the street. Ignored by everyone. Almost everyone. Suddenly a woman appears in front of him, mid-thirties, thin, a drug addict. They stand face-to-face for the first time in years, father and daughter, Volker and Anna. Anna is desperate and on the run from the police. She needs money urgently and demands the key to grandpa's safety deposit box, a key which she knows her father still has. But Volker claims to have hidden it on the other side of the city. They set out on foot through the Berlin night, heading West. On the way, with Anna in pain, Volker notices she is bleeding from her stomach, but not all the blood is hers. And then Volker discovers the bloodied knife she's carrying - As time runs out and the police close in, father and daughter walk through the night. Under cover of darkness the secrets of their East German past explode in a final confrontation, and the consequences of times past come to light.

Details

Year
2009
Type of film
Features
Running time
75 mins
Format
HDCAM
Director
Kivmars Bowling
Producer
Kivmars Bowling, Joanna Cupano
Editor
Antje Tina Lass
Screenwriter
Kivmars Bowling
Director of Photography
Philipp Röhl
Production Designer
Teresa Grosser
Sound
Gillian Holt
Principal cast
Beate Malkus, Helmuth Meier-Lautenschläger

Genre

Experimental Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Dog Animal Films

Ramsgate
Kent
UK

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